Garment-fastening



PATENTED JAN. 19, 1904.

0. M. SHUBERT.

' GARMENT FASTENING.

APPLICATION FILED APR.,2, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

- &4. c THE NORRIS PETERS CO PHD r0 \JTWO ASHINGTON a C UNITED STATES Patented January 19, 1904.

PATENT OFFI E.

GARMENT-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 750,008, dated January 19, 1904. Application filed April 2, 1903. Seria1No.l50,687. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern} Be it known that I, CHARLES M. SHUBERT, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to garment-fastenings which have become well known as hooks and eyes.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a hook and an eye arranged so as to be reliably locked to each other against disengagement, while at the same time susceptible of being readily disengaged from each other, as occasion may require.

The above-mentioned object, as well as others to be hereinafter explained in connection with the literal description of the invention, will be manifest from the construction and arrangement of the garment-fastenings shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top or plan View of a hook embodying essential or particular features of my present invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevational View of the spring-tongue located within the field of the bill of the hook and also showing the arch or hump formed in the spring portion of the tongue of the hook. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the hook, showing the several integral members thereof. Fig. 4 is a top or plan View of an eye in detail especially adapted for use in connection with a hook embodying the particular features of my said invention,

and Fig. 5 is a side elevational view thereof. 1 Referring to the drawings, with special reference to Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, A represents the hook member of the garment-fastening. It is formed of a single continuous strip or wire, as follows: A longitudinal portion a has at one end a substantially triangular eye 6 and at the other end a similar eye I). The wire is bent from the eye I) upward and then parallel with the longitudinal portion a to form a bill 0, having a curved end 0 adjacent to the eye I) of the portion a. The wire is next bent into an eye 6 and then downward and parallel with the bill a to form a second longitudinal portion a.

The wire is next bent into an eye b and then crossed over to a point midway between the sides of the bill 0. This portion at of the wire is next bent upward, as at d, toward the bill a and then curved into a hook d and the wire then continued forward in the plane of the bill 0 in the form of a tongue 6?, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The free end of the tongue 6Z3, which is alsoone of the ends 'of the strip or wire, terminates at a point adjacent to the curved portion a of the bill 0 and extends over and adjacent to the arch or hump d of the wire 03. The arching or humping of the spring in conjunction with the tongue permits when the eye B (to be hereinafter fully explained) is brought into engagement between the spring and the tongue to securely seat in the recess d and beneath the bill a of the hook and the eye to be securely locked to place against accidental disengagement and reducing strain on the goods to which the hook and eye are secured, as well as lessening direct pull by reason of the equalization of the strain between the eye and hook secured to the respective parts of the garment. The strip 01, of wire, is connected with the eye 6 by a yielding spring portion 03 and is free to move at the eye porunder tension exerted between the parts unitedby the fastening, and thus serves to take up the strain upon the stitches which unite the hook A and eye B to the garment. The triangular-shaped loops or openings at the respective ends of the hooks permit the same being sewed to the parts of a garment to be brought into union with each other without the usual rubbing action on the eyes, covered by thread for securing the hook and eye to the parts of the garment as well as concealing to a greater extent than hitherto in use the hook and eye. Moreover, there is obviated to a greater extent gaping of the joined ends of the garment by such a hook and eye. The eye B is preferably made rectangular in shape, with -a front projection g extending upward at right angles to the body of the eye B, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 5 and in the rear terminating in triangular-shaped eyes or openings g and 9 but it is obvious that other forms of eyes or openings may be used, if preferred, in connection with a hook of the construction and arrangement as hereinbefore described with good results. The provision of means at the respective ends of the hooks in triangular form for securing the hook to the parts of agarment insures the body portion of the hook being more closely and firmly fastened to a garment than was possible hitherto in use of hooks and eyes in which the same were secured only along the surface of the members and by the eyes at one end on each side of the hook and eye.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A garment-hook, consisting of a single wire formed into two longitudinal portions, each portion having at each end an eye for securing the hook to the garment, a bill extending from and connecting the eyes at one end of the longitudinal portions, said bill arranged above and parallel with the longitudinal portions, and a part of the wire projecting in a yielding spring connection from another eye of one of the longitudinal members toward the center of the bill, said part being successively arched, formed into a hook and then into a free-ended tongue extending above the arch and within the bill, all arranged so that said part with its tongue may move at its spring connection with said eye portion of one longitudinal member and approach under spring tension the opposite eye portions of both longitudinal members.

2. A garment-hook, consisting of a single wire formed into two longitudinal portions, each portion having at each end an eye for securing the hook to the garment, a bill extending from and connecting the eyes at one end of the longitudinal portions, said bill arranged above and parallel with the longitudinal portions, a part of the wire projecting in a yield ing spring connection from another eyeof one of the longitudinal members toward the center of the bill, said part being successively arched, formed into a hook and then into a free-ended tongue extending above the arch and within the bill, all arranged so that said part with its tongue may move at its spring connection with said eye portion of one longitudinal member and approach under spring tension the opposite eye portions of both longitudinal members, in combination with an eye having a projection extending at right angles to the body of the eye and arranged to enter between the arch and free-ended tongue of the garment-hook to engage said hook.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES M. SHUBERT. Witnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

